Automatic handgun

Abstract

A fully automatic handgun has a barrel and a blowback, open bolt firing breech mechanism, which is mounted in a displaceable manner on a guide. The breech mechanism has a slide with a substantially U-shaped bracket, on which a breechblock is arranged. The slide is displaceably mounted on the guide and on the barrel.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. An automatic handgun, comprising:
 a barrel; 
 a blowback breech mechanism having a slide with a substantially U-shaped bracket and a breechblock disposed on said U-shaped bracket; 
 said U-shaped bracket being formed of an angled metal sheet, said bracket being a part having been punched out of a metal sheet and bent; 
 said U-shaped bracket having legs with free ends, said legs being aligned substantially parallel with an axis of said barrel; 
 said breechblock being accommodated between said legs at said free ends of said legs and said breechblock being affixed thereto; and 
 said slide being mounted for displacement on a guide and on said barrel, and said slide being open on an upper side and a lower side. 
 
     
     
       2. The handgun according to  claim 1 , which comprises a compression spring disposed to enclose said barrel and clamped in between said bracket and said guide. 
     
     
       3. The handgun according to  claim 1 , wherein said guide is arranged on a trigger assembly. 
     
     
       4. The handgun according to  claim 1 , wherein said barrel projects through an opening formed in a base of said U-shaped bracket. 
     
     
       5. The handgun according to  claim 1 , wherein said guide is formed with two mutually opposite U-shaped depressions, and said legs of said U-shaped bracket are guided in said depressions. 
     
     
       6. The handgun according to  claim 5 , wherein said guide is arranged on a barrel holder, and said barrel is releasably fastened on said barrel holder. 
     
     
       7. The handgun according to  claim 6 , wherein said barrel holder is substantially cuboidal in a guide region and said U-shaped depressions are delimited by protrusions disposed thereon. 
     
     
       8. The handgun according to  claim 7 , wherein a pair of protrusions are disposed on a locking part, said locking part is fastened at an end of said barrel holder, and said locking part engages in a depression on said barrel. 
     
     
       9. The handgun according to  claim 6 , wherein said barrel holder comprises a rectangular profile tube with two openings in opposite walls, through which said barrel projects transversely to a longitudinal direction of said profile tube. 
     
     
       10. The handgun according to  claim 9 , which comprises a locking part plugged into an end of said profile tube and fastened there. 
     
     
       11. The handgun according to  claim 1 , further comprising a magazine well and a carrier plate disposed on said magazine well, and a second guide for said slide fastened at said carrier plate. 
     
     
       12. The handgun according to  claim 11 , wherein said carrier plate is formed with a pair of protrusions. 
     
     
       13. The handgun according to  claim 11 , which comprises a barrel holder fastened on said magazine well. 
     
     
       14. The handgun according to  claim 11 , which comprises a pivotably mounted catch arranged on said magazine well acting on a base of said U-shaped bracket. 
     
     
       15. The handgun according to  claim 14 , wherein said catch is a bracket that is bent substantially in a U-shape and has two legs, at the ends of which latching hooks are arranged, and wherein a trigger, which is mounted along a same axis as the catch, acts on a base that connects said two legs. 
     
     
       16. The handgun according to  claim 15 , wherein a pivotally mounted safety bracket acts on said base, on a side opposite said trigger, and wherein a handle part of said safety bracket runs in extension of said trigger. 
     
     
       17. The handgun according to  claim 16 , wherein said catch, said trigger and said safety bracket are mounted on said barrel holder. 
     
     
       18. The handgun according to  claim 17 , wherein said trigger forms a part of a trigger assembly fastened on said magazine well.